62 Undercurrents (1/2)
To fix the segmented Saint God, Jam had to go through a lengthy restoration process. Since the Saint God's skin had been flayed off, it had to stay that way until Jam reattached all of the cut up pieces of his body. Jam began the reattachment process with the arms. He reattached the upper arms, then the forearms, and finally the hands. Unfortunately both hands had the fingers cut up into 14 segments for each hand (2 segments for the thumb and 3 for each of the other fingers).
The process of reattaching all these segmented body parts would have been several times worse if Jam didn't practice the Dao of Yang. More specifically, because of Jam's Solar Upheaval skill, even though he didn't have any active healing skills, Jam could infuse yang aspects to his flames.
The Yang Dao aspects of Virtue and Light allowed Jam to imbue extreme healing and nourishing properties to his skills. Not only were his flames cauterizing the body parts back onto the Saint God, his vitality was also being nourished and healed because of Jam's yang fire.
It took Jam three hours to completely assemble to top half of the Saint God back together. After that Jam began to piece together the Saint God's lower torso and legs; fortunately the Saint God wasn't castrated. Jam finished the bottom half of the Saint God after another 5 hours.
Once the Saint God had his body reconnected, Jam told the female Saint God to feed him some of the Tier 4 Regeneration Pills he gave her. Because all of Jam's pills were perfect, he told the female Saint God that only high-level tier 5 pills or regular tier 6 regeneration pills would be more effective than his pills.
Before leaving, the female Saint God stopped Jam and said ”I, Xie Xinyi, will not forget this favor, and I'm sure Xie Ming won't as well. I'll see you tonight at the feast.” She did an over-the-top Daoist bowing gesture and Jam left, not knowing how to react.
Jam went to the house that had been given to his group, the first thing he saw after entering the house was Cynthia tending to Arnold's burned body; she was helping dress all the burn marks on his body. Arnold looked quite pitiful in his current state, even if he truly wasn't as wounded as he appeared, so Jam decided to make some Tier 4 Shedding Pills.
Usually these pills were used only by women, to discard any old or scarred skin, so that they would look perfect all the time. But for Arnold's case, it would effectively get rid of all the burns on his body. Shedding Pills weren't very hard to create, so Jam created a perfect batch of thirteen on his first attempt. He gave one to Arnold, and the rest of the pills went to Cynthia and Rina.
The effects of the pill were near instantaneous. Arnold took the pill and his burned skin start turning black and fell off of him as if he were a mortal with a sunburn. When the process was done Arnold looked like he did when Jam saw him before entering the Titanic Beast Mountain Range pocket dimension; his left arm was still missing though, so he had that problem.
With Arnold being taken care of, Jam went to his room and started meditating on the Space Dao while waiting for the feast to start. He wasn't in a special environment for Space, so the meditation session didn't yield significant result. But, any amount of training was welcomed by Jam.
Once the time for the feast had arrived, Jam and co. left together to the village square. There, they found that literally everyone from the village had arrived, even though the feast didn't officially start for another couple minutes.
Jam was invited to sit in the seat of honor in the table that housed all the powerhouses in Junkie village. The rest of Jam's friends were also seated near him, but in the normal seats.
The leader of the Junkie Tribe started the feast with a short speech. After everyone quieted down, he said ”As you all know, yesterday several of our captured comrades came back to the village.”
He paused and pointed towards Jam, before continuing ”This young man, on his adventure in our world, took it upon himself to infiltrate and rescue everyone from the Muchie's prison and he did it SINGLE HANDEDLY. Not only have we come together today to celebrate the return of our brothers, we're here to show him the gratitude he rightfully deserves.
As the benefactor of our tribe, he will be known from this day forward as the Lone Spirit of the Junkie Tribe. He will always have a place in our tribe and will be treated as such.”